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Originally posted by V. Cannon
I raised and trained Trump, Austin Cox and I had a littermate to your female named Cloudy that was black and white. Cloudy won queen of the BBOA national hunt. No one wanted a pup out of her or any part of Cloudy, all they could see was a open spotted black and white dog.
Cloudy was a coondog and had a million dollar mouth.

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Originally posted by Surveyor
Until the Bluetick becomes considered a major competitor in the high stakes elimination style and $$ style hunts, instead of a extreme rarity (what are there like 5 entered in the PKC world hunt?) We have much more important things to worry about. Only if and when this happens am I willing to enter into any kind of dialog about what is the "preferred" look of a Bluetick.

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If color is the preference then we all lose a little. If ability is the preference then we all gain a lot. Me personally, I wanted to see a big bone under a dog. One that could stand as much hunting as you wanted to put on one. I know, take the Red Bone or BlackandTan, they were sort of watered down to make a fine bone, strait as an arrow kind of dog that was really pretty to look at. But ability was almost lost because of this. I know I will catch flack for saying that but it's the truth. Same thing happened to the Plots. Not that there not out there but in numbers it really showed up. Thanks to some dedicated breeders that stayed the coarse these breeds are coming back.

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I kind of liken it to a fine tuned race car. Every year we have a big gathering of the local dirt track race cars at one of our malls in our area. Wow, some of them will water your eyes. Beautiful well groomed machines! But in the end it's all about what's under all that metal that counts. Yes, a good qualified driver (or handler, if you will) is needed but without what's under the hood, it's just a good looking race car. This is kinda' my way of looking at it. The old saying, looks can be deceiving, is a good phrase to use here. It is very possible to get both rolled up in one but know what you want and don't settle for less.

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RE ::BREED FOR LOOKS OR ABILITY

depends on if ya plan to coon hunt in the timber or from the tail gate of yer truck n at the weekend bench show i suppose....lol

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Breed for both

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Originally posted by Ron Moore
I kind of liken it to a fine tuned race car. Every year we have a big gathering of the local dirt track race cars at one of our malls in our area. Wow, some of them will water your eyes. Beautiful well groomed machines! But in the end it's all about what's under all that metal that counts. Yes, a good qualified driver (or handler, if you will) is needed but without what's under the hood, it's just a good looking race car. This is kinda' my way of looking at it. The old saying, looks can be deceiving, is a good phrase to use here. It is very possible to get both rolled up in one but know what you want and don't settle for less.

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Originally posted by Roger Smith
HA!!!! Ron, I used to race dirt track, I had to stop and apologize to an ol boy one night because I didn't want him to think I was trying to leave him out. You see, I hit every car out there but his!

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just gonna throw this out there....Breed Standards

they are there for a reason. If you don't follow standards then why have them???

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Breed for ability and the looks will follow in most cases but in most cases if you breed for looks ability suffers

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Breed for ability and the looks will follow in most cases but in most cases if you breed for looks ability suffers

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IMO the bluetick breed already has good conformation as a whole. But is lacking in top performers in the woods. Think about it this way, how many bench show dogs do you see in the higher levels? And how about the hunts? I understand you have to have good conformation for a hound to hold up to long nights hunting. But what we're lacking is the heart and drive. There's not many that have the same kind of go in the late rounds as the early rounds. And especially so for consecutive nights like the chkc world, chck little world, the pkc world, and the nationals. They have plenty of go in the first round but they fizzle out in the late rounds.

Sorry if anyone finds this offensive but just stating my opinion on this.

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They won't be no fire building win hunting with me I will not Owen one of them​ that stand on there head haff the night. They must have a big motor looking to get tree with a coon win I cut them loose with a hy rate of speed

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IMO the bluetick breed already has good conformation as a whole. But is lacking in top performers in the woods. Think about it this way, how many bench show dogs do you see in the higher levels? And how about the hunts? I understand you have to have good conformation for a hound to hold up to long nights hunting. But what we're lacking is the heart and drive. There's not many that have the same kind of go in the late rounds as the early rounds. And especially so for consecutive nights like the chkc world, chck little world, the pkc world, and the nationals. They have plenty of go in the first round but they fizzle out in the late rounds.

Sorry if anyone finds this offensive but just stating my opinion on this.

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Originally posted by Cynthia
just gonna throw this out there....Breed Standards

they are there for a reason. If you don't follow standards then why have them???

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Hounds with ability always are more pleasing to the eye

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